Jessica Klein: 6 Snapchat creators you should know about

Snapchat’s been all over the digital video newscape as of late. It’s moved on from disappearing dick pics (as people love to mention) to hosting videos from major publishers like Vice, CNN, Cosmopolitan, and National Geographic with its relatively new Discover feature.

In between, the social platform also developed Snap Stories. The feature, which appeared in October, allows users to combine multiple Snapchats to create a continuous narrative, in which each part of the story remains on the platform for 24 hours.

All of these changes have served to foster a space where creators can aim to entertain the Snapchatting masses, not just their closest friends. In other words, the app has expanded far beyond its social beginnings and has come to rank as yet another digital video platform, beefing up its native content.

If Snapchat keeps up its momentum—and if Snapchat’s past successes are any indicator, it will—we’re going to get familiar with a few, new creator names. Why not cut to the chase and get to know them now?

1. Shonduras

Collective Digital Studio recently signed seven new creators—three from YouTube, three from Vine, and one from Snapchat. The Snapchat creator, Shaun McBride, goes by Shonduras on the platform, where he makes masterful doodles using the platform’s seemingly minimal tools. McBride is also serving as creative director of Snapchat scripted series “SnapperHero,” starring the likes of Harley Morenstein. McBride currently has over 224,000 followers, and his art looks like this:

2 & 3. Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn

Okay, so these are names you already know (the last names, at least). The daughters of Steven Spielberg and John Goldwyn have teamed up to write and star in Snapchat’s first web series, “Literally Can’t Even.” The new show features the women’s daily lives in LA, appearing regularly on Saturday and disappearing regularly one day later. Talk about an endorsement from “traditional media.”

Seen collaborating with both McBride and Jarre, Carmichael (ChrisCarm) easily ranks in the top three of Snapchat’s big names. He creates Snapchat stories that look like comics, in which his bandana stars as one of two main characters (Carmichael himself—obviously?—being the other).

6. Dasha Battelle

This Snapchat creator, who goes by dabttll on the platform, creates art like Shonduras’s, without using a stylus. Her ability to create seriously intricate designs on the app actually lead to Mashable hiring her as the production assistant on its visual storytelling team, where she’s helping them up their Snapchat game.

Jessica Klein is a reporter at VideoInk, supporting the publication’s coverage of online video. Read all of her posts here!

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